Fatima

“The willingness to be slain for Christ (who is adored as the essential divinity of all the sons and daughters of God), in the sense of self-surrender to the Elect One, is what the path and the teachings of the Great White Brotherhood* are all about. * The word white refers not to race but to the aura, the halo that surrounds these immortals.”
― Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Morya I

“If you can go to a movie and see a picture of war and suffering, and afterward say, “What a wonderful picture!” so may you take this life as a cosmic picture-show. Be prepared for every kind of experience that may come to you, realizing that all are but dreams. Each human life constitutes a drama; and the events of each day represent a drama. You are living a fresh one each of the year’s 365 days. The thought that you are merely a player in these dramas is very comforting. Realize that the acting out of whatever part you are called upon to play does not affect your real being. At the end of every earthly incarnation you are the same—the immortal soul—untouched by sickness, sorrow, or death. “He who cannot be ruffled by these (contacts of the senses with their objects), who is calm and evenminded during pain and pleasure, he alone is fit to attain everlastingness!” (Bhagavad Gita II:15.)”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Man's Eternal Quest

“I find the whole world at my command. The elements, which seem so mysterious, the scriptures, which seem so contradictory —all things are made clear in the great light of God. In that Light everything is understood and mastered. To gain this wisdom of God is the only purpose for which you were sent here; and if you seek anything else instead, you are going to punish yourself. Find your Self and find God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, To be Victorious in Life

“It is better to laugh a little than to make a tragedy of every misfortune. The Gita teaches: “He who feels neither rejoicing nor loathing toward the glad nor the sad (aspects of phenomenal life), who is free from grief and cravings, who has banished the relative consciousness of good and evil, and who is intently devout—he is dear to Me.” To have an optimistic disposition and try to smile is constructive and worthwhile; for whenever you express divine qualities, such as courage and joy, you are being born again; your consciousness is being made new by the manifestation of your true soul nature.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Man's Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays - Volume 1 (Self-Realization Fellowship)